may 18th
14.56 – Well, reading today’s papers, you’d hardly know Arsenal won a cup final yesterday. Every single paper is full of stories about Seaman leaving, Bob Wilson saying Seaman could go to Man City, Peter Hill-Wood saying he’s unsure if Vieira will sign a new contract, Pires and Wenger are both off to Madrid don’t you know.
The worst is the News of the World – on one page they quote Robert Pires speaking right after the match yesterday, “I hope I will sign a contract soon because Arsenal are showing interest in negotiating with me, which means they trust me. I am in no hurry. I trust them.” Then inside the paper they’ve dragged up some old quotes about Real Madrid and how he’d find it hard to turn them down. The sports editor there really ought to try reading the articles before they put them in the paper.
I know most everybody would have preferred it if we’d lost yesterday, but we didn’t. We won the cup, at least give us a day to enjoy with your media cuntery ruining everything. Anyway, whether Seaman stays or goes is something we’ll discuss another day.
Could life get any better for Thierry Henry? A new Arsenal deal will keep him at the club until 2007, another FA Cup winners medal and MOTM award (shoulda been Oleg though), praised for his honesty by the defender who tried to rip the shirt off his back at the start of the match yesterday, and now he’s been named Arseblog’s Player of the Year.
The people have voted and the top 3 were like this:
Position
Name
% of vote
1st
Thierry Henry
52.59%
2nd
Patrick Vieira
21.55%
3rd
Sol Campbell
11.21%
So congrats to Thierry who wins a night on the piss in Barcelona. Just drop me a mail Tel, you get yourself over here and I’ll buy the beers all night. Sounds fair enough to me.
You may have noticed a slight difference in appearance here today. To be honest, the red has been wrecking my head for a while now, but obviously I couldn’t change it mid-season. Now the season has over, I’ve shaved off my Bob-stripe for a few months, and now the look of the site can be updated and refreshed. Last time I redesigned I made the fatal error of soliciting people’s opinions about the new look. Not this time. I can’t hear you *fingers in ears* LA-LA-LA-LA-LA.
I’m not going to go back and change all the archive pages though, or will I? It’s a lot of work and quite frankly a pain in the arse. Maybe I’ll just leave them as is. Same with future redesigns, the archives will be like an online evolution. Or something.
ANR has changed too, it looks a bit more …erm…authentic. Expect summer ramblings and Leopold’s exclusive inside info about transfer deals and more throughout the summer.
I will get a nice FA Cup final wallpaper made up for everyone, and also some exclusive FA Cup pics for the members area in the next couple of days.
Right, lots of sunshine here. Time to bake myself….
UPDATE: FA Cup winners wallpaper available – click to download.
